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The new team behind the familiar Pin Oak Stud has had its share of heartbreak in the last few years. But hope springs eternal in Thoroughbred racing, especially in the spring.
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Churchill Downs in Louisville has raised the purses for 16 of its stakes races scheduled for this year’s spring meeting. That includes a $500,000 boost for the Turf Classic, bringing the purse of the Grade 1 race to $1.5 million.
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Paladin and Chief Wallabee, the two favorites in Daily Racing Form’s Derby Watch, closed as the co-favorites in the fifth Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool at 8-1, separated by only $982 in betting.
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The $500,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs on Saturday more closely resembled a grand melee at the top of the stretch, with eight horses madly scrambling for racing room that didn’t exist. It was a field without order, a race without a true leader.
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California trainer Doug O’Neill is sending his leading 3-year-olds across the country for major Triple Crown prep races in coming weeks.
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The maiden Civil Liberty, third in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity and fourth in the Grade 1 American Pharoah at Santa Anita as a 2-year-old, is pointing to the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial on April 4.
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Long on miles and short on stakes wins, the jet-setting colt Buetane will ramble on to Colonial Downs as the likely favorite in the $500,000 Virginia Derby on Saturday.
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Trainer Will Walden hopes the second March renewal of the Virgina Derby will provide him with his first Kentucky Derby runner. High Camp, despite sporting only a maiden win from two starts, is the 9-2 third choice on the morning line for Saturday's $500,000 Virginia Derby, which confers 50 Derby qualifying points to the winner.
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This weekend's lone Kentucky Derby points race is the Virginia Derby. The morning-line favorite is multiple graded stakes-placed Buetane, a seven-figure juvenile last year by a rising young sire and from a female family that has knocked on the door in the classics.
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Kentucky Derby: Who's hot, who's not for March 11, 2026
